On Mar 25, 8:59*am, Bubba wrote:

That's a Cat 3208. Four stroke as opposed to Detroit's two strokes.

I have heard the throw away line too. I have seen them outlast the running
time meter. I have also seen Detroits that wear out piston seals and suck
the crankcase oil. Run off until the crank goes out the bottom of the
block. That is also a throw away, along with the boat in some cases.

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The 8.2 Detroit was actually a v-8 naturally aspirated 4 cycle. It
was reliable and was actually built to combat against the IH DT 466.
But the DT 466 was still better.

Really , It was a bigger engine but the detroit 8.2 was an over
grown version of the 6.2.. They did the job but with no frills.